Girona · Cataluña
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
A sheltered coastal town credited with giving the 'Costa Brava' its name — supposedly coined here by a journalist gazing at the coastline from a chapel.
What Sant Feliu de Guíxols is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
On a small bay, sheltered by the last foothills of the Serra de les Gavarres.
Worth the trip
- Cork-craft shops selling caps and decorative items
- Monestir de Sant Feliu, a 10th-century fortified Benedictine monastery with the Porta Ferrada, a pre-Romanesque portal with horseshoe arches
A little history
According to legend, it was while contemplating the seashore from the St. Elme Chapel that journalist Ferran Agulló named the coast 'Costa Brava.'
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,772 5% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 22.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime
- 58.6 per 1,000 33% more than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 9
- Nearest international school
- 25 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 20 min
- Nearest health centre
- 2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 40 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 98% 19% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 100% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 23,060
- Born in Spain
- 73.1% 15.7% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.4% 0.4% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.47 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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